Even a two-line summary of the general idea would produce enough "Oh fer cryin' out loud" posts to prevent the kind of single-click-checkout prior art disasters we've had in the last few years.
What we really need is an outright ban on software patents, but the greedy corporations and the politicians in their pockets will never let that happen - take a look at the end-run being attempted in Europe right now for evidence.
Actually, I do know the answer to that. The IBM 1403Chain Printer. It was an incredibly high-speed (3 seconds per-page on 11x14 fanfold) impact printer which used a continuously moving chain with letters attached, and 132 hammers behind the paper. Each hammer would strike when the right letter passed it at the right position. The standard suppled chain came, IIRC, with 8 upper case alphabets, and 2 lower case alphabets. Due to the rotational latency of the chain, lower case letters really slowed down print jobs, so people used all upper case. Even today these beasts are still in use for multi-part forms like invoices and such.
"A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat -- forty-one degrees and thirteen minutes -- northeast and by north -- main branch seventh limb east side -- shoot from the left eye of the death's-head -- a bee-line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out."
AOL won a $12.8 million judgment last year in U.S. District Court in Virginia against Hawke but has been unable to contact Hawke to collect any of the money he was ordered to pay. ...
Greenbaum said she has not talked with her son in more than a year and complained about the embarrassment and humiliation he brought to the family.
"We don't know where is he," she said. "We certainly wouldn't allow him to put any gold on our property."
In other words, he can't be found, and this is a civil, not criminal matter, so even if he were found in another country, extradition doesn't apply.
Speciation won't happen until we move to the asteroid belt. Then it'll happen fairly quickly. And it will happen due to crossover in small populations, not due to mutation.
A 7:11 minute video for a jet powered kayak? Why are so many YouTube videos so long? If I'm on the Internet, by definition I don't have that long an attention span.
And when you're spamflooding through a Russian botnet, how exactly does one determine that the target email address belongs to a "think of teh children"?
In most enterprises, Pescatore said the use of firewalls and the automatic blocking of TCP ports 139 and 445 should help mitigate the risk. However, he cautioned against IT administrators letting their guards down.
If you have 139 or 445 exposed to the Internet, you've already been infected with something.
While it's true that Microsoft Flight Simulator (NOT Sublogic) was the compatability standard mentioned in every review, the thing that sold all those PCs and all those copies of PC/MS-DOS was Lotus 123. 123 made the PC the way VisiCalc made the Apple II. Because Lotus wrote directly to the video memory, "sorta" clones (DEC Rainbow anyone?) that had BIOS, but not physical compatability, had no chance.
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It's at least as Open as OpenVMS!
Connections. Influence. Gravitas.
Then these guys are in real trouble.
Even a two-line summary of the general idea would produce enough "Oh fer cryin' out loud" posts to prevent the kind of single-click-checkout prior art disasters we've had in the last few years.
What we really need is an outright ban on software patents, but the greedy corporations and the politicians in their pockets will never let that happen - take a look at the end-run being attempted in Europe right now for evidence.
Thinking "Plane go boom"!
I just thought of another "Missing Option" for the "What is Your Least Favorite Acronym?" poll.
I thought /. was Social Networking For Geeks. I don't picture a lot of obscure Hitchhikers Guide jokes in astrophysics threads on MySpace.
Actually, I do know the answer to that. The IBM 1403 Chain Printer. It was an incredibly high-speed (3 seconds per-page on 11x14 fanfold) impact printer which used a continuously moving chain with letters attached, and 132 hammers behind the paper. Each hammer would strike when the right letter passed it at the right position. The standard suppled chain came, IIRC, with 8 upper case alphabets, and 2 lower case alphabets. Due to the rotational latency of the chain, lower case letters really slowed down print jobs, so people used all upper case. Even today these beasts are still in use for multi-part forms like invoices and such.
That's absolutely right. If God hadn't meant for the Control key to be next to the "A" key, he wouldn't have put it there on the ADM3A.
ROTFLMFAO
No - that was on Law and Order: Bad Science.
Speciation won't happen until we move to the asteroid belt. Then it'll happen fairly quickly. And it will happen due to crossover in small populations, not due to mutation.
I'm sure all his posts will be calm, reasoned, factual and well stated.
Q-tip, Xerox, Escalator, Velcro, and Band-Aid are some more that haven't been mentioned yet.
Wiki entry for Genericized Trademark here
> Take for instance Kleenex, Jell-O, Frisbee & Hoover.
You forgot: Nothing sucks like a VAX!
> Floats over the water? I'd like to see it float over some rocks.
That's impressive; most other boats float on the water.
A 7:11 minute video for a jet powered kayak? Why are so many YouTube videos so long? If I'm on the Internet, by definition I don't have that long an attention span.
There are only 17,576 TLAs, but there are 456,976 FLAs (which, oddly enough, is a TLA).
And when you're spamflooding through a Russian botnet, how exactly does one determine that the target email address belongs to a "think of teh children"?
Yup, you're absolutely right. And as I said, if you've exposed those ports on an unsecure network, you (your sales guys) are ALREADY infected...
While it's true that Microsoft Flight Simulator (NOT Sublogic) was the compatability standard mentioned in every review, the thing that sold all those PCs and all those copies of PC/MS-DOS was Lotus 123. 123 made the PC the way VisiCalc made the Apple II. Because Lotus wrote directly to the video memory, "sorta" clones (DEC Rainbow anyone?) that had BIOS, but not physical compatability, had no chance.
> Since the dawn of time, the x86 FPU has been organized as a stack
Or, at least close enough, for non-technical people.